John Robb: The Hidden Logic of the Occupy Movement

OCCUPY NOTE 11/20/11: The HIDDEN logic of the Occupy Movement This is what happens when authority is unaccountable and has lost any sense of human connection to a subject population  James Fallows, the celebrated American author and columnist. It appears that Occupy’s extreme non-violence/passivity has finally generated a social system disruption.  Videos and pictures showing …

Chuck Spinney: Perspective on Turkey-Israel Relations

Below is an excellent perspective on Turkish – Israeli relations and the irresponsible Israeli-neocon effort to smear Turkey with the phony charge of islamo-fascisim (itself a logically absurd term). While Hadar thinks, in my view correctly, Ataturk would back Erdogan’s policies, one thing he does address is how Ataturk might have reacted to Israel’s provocations, …

Paul Fernhout: Open Letter to the Intelligence Advanced Programs Research Agency (IARPA)

EDIT 4 Sep 2011: Link and misc. fixed. Dear IARPA staff- The greatest threat facing the USA is the irony inherent in our current defense posture, like for example planning to use nuclear energy embodied in missiles to fight over oil fields that nuclear energy could replace. This irony arises in part because the USA’s …

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Government Secret Intelligence

Updated 22 July 2019 SHORTCUT: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-Spy-Reviews A fraction–the most relevant, from Intelligence (Government/Secret)  (408).  Does not include Information Operations (154), Information Society (247), Information Technology (118), or Misinformation & Propaganda (242). Does not include Intelligence (Collective & Quantum) (114), Intelligence (Commercial) (90), Intelligence (Extra-Terrestrial) (24), Intelligence (Public) (326), Intelligence (Spiritual) (6), Intelligence (Wealth of Networks) …